CruiseControl.NET

The End of a Good Thing This is the third and final part in my series of improving the administration for the web dashboard (the first two parts are here and here). In the first two parts I built a rough admin console, that allowed the following ... [More] functionality: Reload dashboard configuration Add/modify/delete remote servers Load/install packages I have now added [...] [Less]

This morning at 6:25am, my son, Ethan Philip Sutherland, was finally born. He is a nice healthy young boy, although certainly on the heavy side (especially considering the size of my wife!) Normally, I aim not to post personal events in this blog, but this event will have a significant impact on my life and the [...]

Previously This is the second instalment on my web dashboard administration plug-in (read the first instalment here). In my first instalment I started on a plug-in to administer the dashboard. This plug-in displayed a list of the configured servers ... [More] , a list of the packages, plus had a few commands to manipulate things. However, the only piece [...] [Less]

A Long Story Short When I first started development for CruiseControl.Net, I wanted to add a WCF transport mechanism to the product. Now I did achieve this, but it took a fair amount of work. The way I original did it was to provide implementations of the transport classes within CCTray, plus I added a server [...]

The Issue CruiseControl.Net has been designed around maximum flexibility, to allow an administrator to configure it in an almost unlimited variety of ways. Unfortunately this has come at the expense of ease-of-use. It has been assumed that all ... [More] administrators are happy to much around in XML configuration files and know what they are doing! However, this is [...] [Less]

I’m spending some time looking at the web dashboard at the moment, trying to make things easier for administrators. One of the areas that can add a lot of value to the dashboard is some AJAX and dynamic functionality. This means the administrator doesn’t need to send a request, wait for the page to refresh and [...]

How Do I…? One of the common issues with CruiseControl.Net is it can be challenging to configure it – now of it’s parts have any configuration tools (except CCTray). Looking at some of the other CI tools out there (e.g. Cruise, TeamCity, etc.), it is obvious they also have picked up on this. Not only that, [...]

1.4.3 is “In the House”! This week-end, the 1.4.3 version of CruiseControl.Net was finally released, thanks to Dave’s hard work (currently he’s the only one who can do a release). The good news is this version offers a lot of minor improvements and bug fixes, so CruiseControl.Net should be more stable. The bad news is there appears [...]